Mac Geek Gab

By Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

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Mac Geek Gab episodes:

April 19, 2009Mac Geek Gab #199: Hard Drives, Networking, Older Macs and More
John and Dave, live (to tape, er, hard disk!) discussing your tips, questions, queries, concerns, and favorite Mac apps!
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Greenspring Townhomes
DD-WRT
Linksys WRT150N Wireless-N Home Router
BSSID
Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine stops backing up to external disk
Linus and Lucy
Portable Computers: Models Which Do Not Have a Backup Battery
Resetting PowerBook and iBook Power Management Unit (PMU)
Intel Desktop Board D945GCLF with Integrated Intel Atom Processor
Faking Out the Leopard Installer with Open Firmware
LeopardAssist
Action Jackson
Dock Spaces
Deeper
Docker
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April 14, 2009Mac Geek Gab #198: Backups, Wi-Fi, AppleCare Experiences, and More!
More Dock tips, backup strategies, long-haul WiFi, and general troubleshooting questions about your Mac round out this week’s episode with your favorite geeks, John and Dave. Subscribe for free today!
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iPod Nano Settlement
DMAchoice.org
WYWH Postcards
AmazingMail
Typical Mac User (with Victor!)
Your Mac Life (with Shawn!)
TalkShoe
Cheating at Leopard: Make Stacks work the way you thought it would
DragThing
Spaces
SOHCAHTOA
Oscar Had A Heap Of Apples
Carbon Copy Cloner
Dipole antenna
Yagi antenna
802.11b Homebrew WiFi Antenna Shootout
Cantennas for 2.45GHz , 3.5GHz , 5.8GHz
EME (communications) (earth-moon-earth)
log-periodic dipole array (LPDA)
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April 07, 2009Mac Geek Gab #197: Dock Customization, Cool Stuff Found, RDC, WiFi, and More!
Dave and John are back in the saddle for another Monday evening filled with Mac geekery of all sorts, including answering your questions, solving your problems, and sharing your tips! This week’s episode includes a healthy focus on Mac OS X’s Dock, including a few tricky ways to customize it — want to add spacers to your Dock or customize which apps hide it? Listen in for that and much, much more!
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The Vision Show 2009
Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel
mdutil (Spotlight)
Clearing Spotlight Cache in Mac OSX
Dock spacers
OnyX
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
YouSendIt
Sharing Large Files with iDisk
DVD Player and Blu-ray Player region codes
Gmail – Configuring other mail clients
AppleJack
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1h 6min
March 28, 2009Mac Geek Gab #196: Mac Questions Answered, Tips Shared, and Cool Stuff Found
John and Dave are at it again for a special second scheduling-induced show this week! This time they’ve got real-world stories to share and tips from all of you. Of course, a few listener questions will be answered, as well, rounding out today’s weekend show!
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The Vision Show
AppZapper
SheepShaver
Run Classic apps on Intel Macs with SheepShaver
SheepShaver discussion on Emaculation.com
iPhoto 6 and later: Rebuilding the iPhoto library
Picasa for Mac (beta)
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1h 2min
March 25, 2009Mac Geek Gab #195: WiFi Tips and Tricks, RAM Upgrade Truths, SXSW Stories and More
More WiFi wisdom, questions, and love from your favorite geeks and all of their great listeners! Dave and John are back with an audio-comment-filled show that also covers Dave’s trip to South by Southwest, some RAM upgrade options, and more.
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Welcome to South by Southwest 2009
iPhone: Basic troubleshooting
iPod touch: Basic Troubleshooting
AirPort Extreme 802.11n Enabler for Mac
iPhone Configuration Utility 1.1 for Mac OS X
iPhone Configuration Utility 1.1 for Windows
MacJury #903: Evidence is Heard and Judgement is Passed on the iPhone 3.0 Announcements
MacBook Pro (Late 2006) – Technical Specifications
802.11n/g/b Wireless USB 2.0 Stick Adapter & Extension Cradle
Service set identifier (SSID)
iStumbler Release 98
AP Grapher
Moore’s Law
6GB of RAM in the “Late 2008” MacBook Pro
CAS latency
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March 10, 2009Mac Geek Gab #194: Troubleshooting AirPort, Full Drives, Upgrades, NTFS
John and Dave discuss solutions for listeners’ AirPort problems, full hard drives, what to do when sending a laptop in for repair and more. Then they share listener tips for connecting to NTFS file systems and decompressing RAR archives. Send in your question and the geeks will likely get you an answer, perhaps even on a future show! Subscribe now and never miss another episode again. It’s free!
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Square Root Day
Pi Day
South by Southwest 2009
Radius Atomic Bass
Radius Atomic Bass for iPhone
Apple Product Specs
A gamer’s take on the new Mac mini
Macintosh 128K: Technical Specifications
Resetting AirPort Express
AirPort Express status light (LED) behavior and meanings
Speedtest.net Speed Test
Discover
Wi-Fi Protected Access
Wireshark
iStumbler
The Sword of Shannara: The Shannara Series, Book 1
Spring Cleaning 10
Monday’s Mac Gadget – Need to Free Some Disk Space? Check out Xslimmer!
Monolingual
OmniDiskSweeper
Setting up firmware password protection in Mac OS X
I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today
MacBook Pro: For maximum performance, upgrade memory in matched pairs
Matched RAM on Intel Macs
Tom’s Hardware
My hovercraft is full of eels (in many languages)
macfuse
NTFS-3G
NTFS for Mac OS X 7.0
Zipeg
BetterZip
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1h 15min
March 03, 2009Mac Geek Gab #193: Safari 4 Beta, Switcher Questions, Buying External Drives, Podcast Management
Dave and John have a lot on the agenda for this week’s episode, including (but certainly not limited to!) Safari 4 beta, Switcher questions, formatting large drives, routers, and podcast management. Subscribe for free today and never miss an episode again!
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Horse birthday cake
Safari 4 Beta
The WebKit Open Source Project
Eye-Fi
iPhoto 5 or earlier: Rebuilding the iPhoto Library
iPhoto 6 and later: Rebuilding the iPhoto library
glims
Setting the time till shutdown on an uninterruptible power supply
Linksys WRT600N
My Book Mirror Edition
macfuse
NTFS-3G
RAR
RARLAB Downloads
KeyCue
Limitations of FAT32 File System
Play any region-coded DVD
Left, Right & Center
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1h 1min
February 17, 2009Mac Geek Gab #192: Time Machine, QoS, Drobo, Syncing, DVDs, Dock Hiding and More
John and Dave are here delivering all kinds of stuff today. A quick follow-up on the Drobo, including some listener tips, then some Time Machine discussion, which leads into listener questions about DVDs, Quality of Service, hiding the Dock, and more. Subscribe for free today and don’t miss another episode!
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Drobo
DroboShare
WD My Book Mirror Edition
RAID
atvusb-creator
How to increase recording capacity on your TiVo DVR
Firefly iTunes Media Server
Western Digital DRM’d Hard Drive Won’t Let You Share MP3, DivX … Or Impulse Tracker
Discovering Sparse Bundle Disk Images
VLC media player
MacTheRipper
DVD Region Code
Bandwidth throttling in OS X
WaterRoof
Throttled Pro
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1h 21min
February 10, 2009Mac Geek Gab #191: Drobo, DroboShare, Podcast Playing Tips, and Shared Volumes in Finder
Dave set up the Drobo and DroboShare this weekend, and even played with some DroboApps, so he and John take some time to talk through his experiences and the devices themselves. Then it’s on to listener feedback and questions, including some iPod-related podcast-playing tips, how best to display mounted shares in the Finder, and more! Subscribe for free today!
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Groundhog Day (Official Site)
Drobo
Creating a RAID Set
DroboShare
DroboApps
Apple Filing Protocol (AFP)
Vista Network Issues
Using the AirPort Admin Utility to create a WDS network with multiple base stations
AirPort Express: How to join an existing wireless network in client mode
MarcoPolo
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twhirl
Adobe AIR
RCDefaultApp
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1h 3min
February 03, 2009Mac Geek Gab #190: Macs to HDMI, DropBox for Sharing, Syncing Calendars, Migration
Listener questions answered, tips shared and more, with topics including syncing files and calendars using DropBox and MobileMe, migrating to a new Mac, and sharing an AirPort connection. Subscribe today for free!
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Groundhog Day (pseudo-holiday)
Groundhog Day (movie)
Belkin HDMI to DVI Cable
The Digital TV Transition
iDisk Utility
Eye-Fi
EXIF
MobileMe: Troubleshooting “inconsistency” alerts when syncing data
Using Migration Assistant to transfer files
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59min

FAQs about Mac Geek Gab:

How many episodes does Mac Geek Gab have?

The podcast currently has 1,099 episodes available.